#just JoWo things

[karl-von-moor-official]

Nachdem ich „die heilige Cäcilie“ gelesen habe, verstehe ich nun, warum Goethe eines von Kleists Werken ins Feuer geworfen hat. I mean:

„Wie viele unnötig komplizierte Nebensätze möchtest du in diesen Satz packen?“ Kleist: „Alle.“

[karl-von-moor-official]

✨allein✨

“Abends mit Hofr. Schiller spazieren gefahren. Die Idee von dem Naturgedichte durchgesprochen. Abends mit demselben allein gegessen.”

— Goethe, Tagebucheintrag vom 08.05.1799

[munchboxart]

Fountain pen ink update, I've collected quite a collection of inks! Unfortunately, I underestimated how many blues I decided to get LOL I still have more on the way as well.

I just bought Machu Picchu by Diamine, Milky Way by Troublemaker, and a sample of Quantum Teal by Birmingham Pens that I'm really excited to try.

I just realised I didn't swatch another purple I had that's also called Milky Way (but it's by Pentonote). I also swatched Classic Green by Diamine but just didn't show it off because I... only have 1 green, but I'll be happy to share if anyones interested.

By the way, all of these swatches (except for the Classic Green) is done by a glass dip pen.

Some notes for similar inks: Boilers Steam by Birmingham Pens and Dragon by Octopus Fluids are pretty much identical, the main difference is that Dragon is a lot more sheenier. Maskara and Simulan by Vinta Inks are also extremely similar, the main difference is that Maskara is a little more warmer, while Simulan is cooler. Bog Sage and Snowfield by Dominant Industry look similar on camera, but Bog Sage shades a lot more, while Snowfield is just lighter (and has glitter).

As for favorite inks, my opinion heavily depends on how it looks when writing with a fountain pen, but I will say I really like Dugong Bughaw by Vinta Inks (my mega sheener ink) and Dragon by Octopus Fluids. I'm really looking forward to using Blueze Hadancourt by Dominant Industry on my pen because It looks really pretty (Yuletide by Diamine as well). Oh! Classic Green too, but I just put that in yesterday so I'll have to do more writing, but I like how it looks (but maybe it's just because it's a change from blue-purples). LASTLY, I really love the Cat swatch by Colorverse, I believe it looks best with dip pen.

As for inks I want to get in the future, the only ink I have in mind that I want to get 100% is Gyeyu Jeongnan by Colorverse. I love snow, and it looks like blood on snow which I think looks really cool. And at least one Wearingeul ink. I almost caved and bought The Great Gatsby for myself, but I heard a lot of reviews that it was underwhelming so I held back on it. I bought 1984 for a friend and red glitter on red ink is crazy. Enki, Wendy Darling, White Rabbit, I am a cat, and The Happy Prince seem like inks I'm interested in, though.

As for new pens. From left to right: Lamy Safari (M), Jinhao Acrylic 82 (M), Monteverde Ritma (Omniflex), Jinhao Tiandao 1935, and Pilot Kakuno (M)

I'm pretty sure I showed off my Lamy Safari before but I'll show it again because I like how it looks and reminds me of a Premier Ball (my fav).

I do have more pens but they're unremarkable. What I do want to talk about is my Monteverde Ritma. I've wanted this thing since the beginning of my proper Fountain Pen journey. I believe it's the most expensive pen I have so far. The capping and posting is magnetic which I absolutely love. The unfortunate part is the Omniflex nib. I never heard of it before and wanted to try it, good fucking god do not ever get this nib, it will not work 95% of the time. You need to be gentle with it otherwise you will permanently spread the tines so far apart that ink wont flow anymore. Just get a medium nib, my Monteverde has been rendered useless for now before I get a JoWo #6 replacement. It's unfortunate because the nib is gorgeous too! It just fucking sucks nut

The other pen I wanted to talk about is the Jinhao Tiandao 1935 (2 pictured under the pen pic). This is my absolute favorite pen. I wasn't sure I was gonna like it because it's the fattest pen I have but I love writing with this thing! Unfortunately, it does leak a lot more by the slit/breather hole of the nib compared to my other pens, but it's cool. I did also get this pen for the design at first. I think my friend finds the guitar clip corny but I like it a lot!!! It's funny as fuck. I might get a red version of this pen just because of how much I love it.

I'll be laying off of the pen collecting after that, I did get a Moonman M2 (not pictured) as my first eyedropper and it's just fine, I like how the ink looks in the barrel though. The only other pen I have in mind that I still want to get is an Opus 88 Demonstrator. I LOVEEE frosted stuff, I wish more pen companies did that style of design. I'm just... still working my way up on whether I am willing to spend 100+ on a pen.

I'll be slowing down a lot with these since I barely used any of the inks since I don't really write outside of work stuff, but also I've become very picky with what I want now, especially since I've made a conscious effort to go for more warmer or green inks because I have a crazy collection of cool colors right now. I'm also picky with inks in general, I really don't like normal ass inks where there's nothing special about it (no sheening or shimmer), but funny enough, I'm also very picky with the sheen was well (I don't like purple/green sheens). Also, I find that a lot of my inks look a little lighter compared to my glass dip pen samples, but I don't know if it's just that most of my pens run dry or what. If that is the case, then that's a little disappointing.

But that's it so far, I'll be happy to do a writing sample of any of the inks if anyone's interested.

EDIT: I just remembered one other thing.

I've wanted to get an ink muddler for a long time but they just do not fucking sell this one (this is by Dominant Industry) in NA for some reason OR they just sell out fast, which is really sad. I need to get one of these because my glass dip pen fucking sucks at swatching with, and I really do not want to waste Q-tips.

[flowers-and-fichte]

Schoethe raising a child headcanons

Okay, so @poesia-storica and I came up with this Schoethe concept in which Goethe and Schiller were secretly married and they (again, secretly) adopted Schiller's son Karl.

Goethe and Schiller only adopt Karl because adopting all of the Schiller children would draw too much attention.

They raise Karl very well, sometimes a little too well.

Charlotte, of course, is completely oblivious to the fact that Fritz is secretly raising Karl with Goethe. So when Karl runs up to his mom yelling that he has two daddies, she looks at him in utter confusion.

Cue Schiller saying that Goethe is the godfather, and nothing more.

Everyone else (except Christiane) knows the truth. And they're fine with it.

Karl does tend to run off. A LOT. So his dad and stepdad naturally came up with a solution: a leash child safety tether. Which of course both JoWo and Fritz are adamant about, but it's for the best.

Karl definitely tries to drag whoever is holding the tether along with him. When that thing's on, he pulls. Hard.

Also that kid just straight up runs off if neither of his fathers are keeping an eye on him in a public setting.

Everyone in Weimar thinks that these two men just running around and looking for this small child is completely normal.

Karl is definitely one step ahead of his dads. He is a manipulative little shit yet he is very adorable and sweet.

And by manipulative he will do that thing where small children lie and the parents believe them.

He also swears. @poesia-storica had this thought of Karl hearing Schiller cursing and deciding to use the word. All. The. Time. Poor Goethe has no idea what to do anymore.

So one day...

Karl: Scheiße.

Goethe and Schiller: *gasp*

Goethe: Don't use that word, Karl.

Karl: What word?

Goethe: *gives Schiller a "please help me" look*

Schiller: *whispering* I think he knows which one.

Karl: You mean scheiße?

Goethe: ...

Schiller: *sigh* Yes. That one. But don't ever use it again. We can, because we are responsible adults who can watch our mouths and know when and when not to use it.

Karl: I'm responsible too...

Schiller: You just swore twice.

Karl: SCHEISSE

Goethe: Oh no. Child is broken...guess we messed up.

Schiller: He's grounded.

I can imagine them in some public setting or something and Karl just suddenly runs around swearing his head off and Goethe and Schiller are mentally facepalming.

That doesn't mean that Karl isn't a good kid; of course he is. And Goethe and Schiller love him very much. They're just protective.

Also whenever his dads have a fight, Karl just goes up to Fritz, hugs his leg (refusing to let go) and just says, "I think Daddy likes you as much as I do. Probably as much as I like pudding."

And Schiller just M E L T S

Karl is not only cute and mischievous, he's great emotional support.

Overall, our favorite literary husbands love their son way too much and he loves them back, perhaps even more.

Credit to @poesia-storica for some of these amazing ideas!

[headmaestro]

Nandara's Tale: Where Music Begin | Prelude.

As time marches forward, the Maestro conducts a symphony of love, each note serves a testament to the passage of time and the beauty of fleeting moments.

CHAPTER ONE: The First Movement ♪ .. || “Thus now, the orchestra stirs into a new movement—a symphonic rebirth,” whispered, NANDARA J. YESABINE.

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ [ . . . ]

Foresee, crafting a love story as timeless as a classic tune, PARK SUNGHOON for the MAIN COMPOSITION and LEE HEESEUNG, YANG JUNGWOON, YOON JEONGHAN, and NAS his SIDE COMPOSITIONS. Mingled—casting a soft glow that illuminated the stage, where an aura lingered of a LEGAL 20+ took part.

The lead drives the strings of your heart to be plucked, as he strives onto the stage filled with a symphony of emotions, seamlessly transitioning between roles of LOVER, FRIEND, FAMILY, and ANY SITUATIONSHIP. Composed by several sonnets of BXB and GXB connections in his lyrical tone as SUBMISSIVE.

The head maestro remarked, “The audience is buzzing. Let’s give them something to remember, 'shall we?” Just as that, pure confidence showed on the ARIES's bright eyes, resembling his true nature of an INTP.

Merely heard by the crowd—the sound of rustling pages filled the air, a gentle reminder of the music yet to come. He greeted the audience not only in musical gestures, but also through alluring INDONESIA, ENGLISH, and BILINGUAL resonance of pitch.

Dedicated to the echoes filled in the hearts of all who had been fortunate enough to listen as he indicated his care through a gentle touch of QUALITY TIME, ACTS OF SERVICE and WORDS OF AFFIRMATION, harmonizing with the sounds around. ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ⋆⋆✮♪♫♪✮⋆⋆

CHAPTER TWO: The Entrancing Melodies Unfold ♪ .. || “Remember, every note we play is a part of our story. Let's make the best of our performance,” uttered, The Head Maestro. The notes carry on to every Maestro's AVAILABILITY:

♬ ) All basic services, Couple avatar or display name, PDA (V/VVIP only), Stay up late, Bilingual or Javanese speaking, Fluent in English, Pap activity without face, Deeptalk, Dirty talk, Imagine bracket N/SFW (short to medium), IC character, Music date (Spotify), Movie date (Rave, Loklok), Reading date (AU, Webtoon), Game date (Telegram, Plato, Gartic).

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ⌞ A charmer so alluring, controlled, yet deeply, unshakably alive.⌝

CHAPTER THREE: Gentle Melodies Savored ♪ .. || “ It was a heartbeat, a breath shared between us all,” remarked, The Head Maestro. Which means, a new INTRODUCTION has finally opened in our shared chapter.

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Hello, precious ones! A warm greetings to everyone who read this corner of mine. Allow me to tell you about myself by the name Nandara J. Yesabine. Just simply call me Nanda or Dara, but if you have any cute nicknames I will gladly accept it! Because I also loves to give new nicknames especially for my loved ones. You may not see my cute side here because I keep it for my special person, hehe. Before you dive into me deeper, I'm a bilingual person who fluent in English but can speak Indonesia and Javanese as well. Adek iki wong Jowo asli lohh.

I have INTP as my MBTI, but no worries I can be a bubbly person for you! I will always try to liven up the conversation with my own way. I'm easily getting excited even using capslock when typing. I love to talk about maanyyy things, giving you some TMI(s) or random stories, so don't be afraid to share anything with me. I'll be your ears and give you some advice if necessary. I'll always be your most supportive partner and stick by your side whenever you need me, well except if I asleep hehe. I have Aries as my sign, people said it belongs to one of the flirty zodiac. Well, I'm a flirty person. I'd love to being 'centil' to my lover and tease them in a cute way since I'm a bit mischievous.

But sometimes I can be really clingy to my partner, I love to send my muse's picture and use some cute stickers/gif. Oh! I loveee caatss soooo muuchhh!! Aren't they just the cutest being on earth????!

For my music taste, I mostly listen to any pop songs but I love other genres too. Some of my favorites singers are 1D, EXO, Enhypen, Seventeen, Charlie Puth, Taylor Swift, Shawn Mendes, Justin Bieber, and etc. I'm veerryy much open for songs recommendations, so we can try to match our favorite songs together. Next, if we talk about movies I reaallyy love horror and adventures movies. Harry Potter, Maze Runner, Narnia, Percy Jackson, Teen Wolf, The Conjuring, are some of my favorites movies. Do you have any good movies that we should watch together?

CW // NSFW

As for steamy things, I'm the type that loves to tease first by sending some fake pap(s). Prefer to use local p*rn words and having both degrading and praise kink. A naughty slut who's ready to ride you all night or an obedient kitten who willfollowing his master's order.

I may not as cute as other submissive out there but I'll assure you I can still be your favorite one. Whether it'll be your lover, friends, or family. I'll give you tons of warm hugs and bunch of kisses along with a soft pat on your head to give you some comfort after a tough day. Then we can finish it by cuddling up in our bed, lovely isn't it??? So, are you interested to paint a colorful stories with me? I'll be waiting for your arrival, love. See you soon<3

[karl-von-moor-official]

oh gott, bitte, ich brauche diese Quelle! xD

denke so oft an diesen aboluten goethe-moment als er so viel spargel gegessen hat bis ihm schlecht geworden ist und sein leibarzt gerufen werden musste

[lingshanhermit]

Lingshan Hermit: Because You Are Deeply Bound by Western Culture

Human thought patterns, language patterns, and reactions to events are the result of long-term training. How you think, speak, and respond to situations are all products of habit. Generally, these habits are a composite product of your personality, regional culture, and various influences you've been exposed to. Your personality, the regional culture you're in, the books you read, the people you interact with, the university lectures you attend, and the music you listen to—all these together shape your outlook on life, worldview, and values. They also create your thought patterns, language patterns, and reactions to situations. These habits have been welded into your being over time, making them difficult to change. It's entirely unrealistic to imagine that hearing a few days of Buddhist teachings could make them vanish into thin air. Changing deep-rooted values is a long-term process, and changing the various thought patterns, language patterns, and reactions that stem from these deep-rooted values takes even longer. The prerequisite for change is realizing that your entire set of current thought patterns, language patterns, and behavioral patterns are rooted in an erroneous value system. But this is extremely difficult.

For instance, when you hear stories like those of Gopa and Jowo Buddha in "The Words of My Perfect Teacher," they are essentially like fairy tales to you, similar to Jack's beanstalk growing to the sky overnight in "Jack and the Beanstalk." I don't think you would believe these events actually happened. Because you don't live in ancient India, you live in an era of search engines, automatic toasters, and self-driving cars, so you're less likely to believe these things than your grandfather's or great-grandfather's generation. If you think these are just fairy tales created by Tibetans hundreds of years ago, then correspondingly, you won't believe the descriptions of hell in "The Words of My Perfect Teacher" are real, nor will you believe other various descriptions to be true. However, because you're accustomed to self-deception and find yourself in a special environment surrounded by seemingly devout people, you feel compelled to pretend you believe. But in fact, you don't. After pretending for a while, you slowly come to think you truly believe. But you still don't. You don't believe that Buddha statues can talk, that bronze Buddha statues can walk to laypeople's homes to visit, nor do you believe that Milarepa and Bodhidharma could stand on grass tips, or that those who have realized emptiness can leave footprints in stone. Because you are a person deeply bound by Western culture.

Therefore, despite years of practice, your underlying values remain unchanged, because deep down you consider these to be fairy tales, so new values cannot be established. This prevents you from developing new thought patterns, new language patterns, and new reactions to events. Because new thought patterns, language patterns, and reactions to events can only slowly emerge after new values have been established for many years. This is why many people practice for years without forming new values.

Changing cognition is a very long and painful process, and changing the thought patterns, language patterns, and behavioral patterns that arise from erroneous cognition is no less challenging. However, in practical terms, we should start with changing behavior. If you've made a mistake, you should start by changing your behavior, not by trying to change the source of the error—your values. In the past, when people here made mistakes, they would tearfully and firmly declare that they would definitely change, absolutely change. I also believed they genuinely intended to change, but within a few days, they would revert to their old ways, pulled back by their habitual tendencies, which left them deeply frustrated. The reason for this is that they wanted to change their deep-seated values first and then change their behavior through the change in values, but changing values is a very long-term process that takes at least several years to show effect. If you hope to change your values and thought patterns first, and then change your behavior through the change in values, you'll never be able to change.

Even if you truly recognize that you're wrong, it's impossible to instantly reverse habits, because the habits formed by your previous erroneous cognition are still there, firmly controlling you. When you do anything, you'll still habitually use your previous thought processes and methods. It's not possible for habits formed before you recognized your errors to automatically disappear. That's impossible. So, if you hope to change habits by changing erroneous cognition, you've fallen into the demon's trap. Deep-seated erroneous cognition (believing that people only live one life, believing that all things have inherent existence, etc.) is the soil, while habitual thought patterns and behavioral patterns are the grass growing on that soil. If you don't destroy the soil that nurtures erroneous habits, even if your determination is great, the grass will still sprout from time to time, and you'll continue to make mistakes. This frequent mistake-making is enough to destroy your self-confidence, making you feel hopeless and developing a mindset of giving up. Therefore, the correct approach should be to first change behavioral patterns while slowly changing your deep-seated values.

Written by Lingshan Hermit on September 4, 2024.

灵山居士：因为你是被西方文化深度捆绑的人

人类的思维模式、语言模式和他们对事情的反应都是长期训练出来的结果。你会如何思维、如何说话、遇到事情会如何反应这些都是习惯的产物。一般来说，这些习惯是由你的性格、地域文化以及所受各种影响综合起来的产物。你的性格、你所处的地域文化、以及你看的书接触的人听的大学讲座和音乐，这些共同打造了你的人生观世界观和价值观、也造就了你的思维模式语言模式以及遇到事情的反应。这些习惯在你身上年深日久，早已焊死。所以，要移动他们并不那么容易。幻想听闻几天佛法就能让他们烟消云散是完全不切实际的想法。改变深层价值观是件旷日持久的事，改变深层价值观之下所产生的各种思维模式语言模式以及遇到事情的反应更是需要漫长的时日。而改变��前提是你能意识到自己现有的一整套思维模式语言模式行为模式都根植于错误的价值体系。但是这非常不容易。譬如当你听到《普贤上师言教》里的工布奔和觉沃佛的故事，基本上那对你来说是类似于童话故事《杰克与豌豆》里豌豆茎一夜之间长到天上去的故事。我不觉得你会认为那是真实发生的事。因为你不是生活在古印度，你是生活在有搜索引擎、自动烤面包机和无人驾驶汽车的年代，所以比起你的爷爷辈祖爷爷辈你更不容易相信这些。假如你认为这些只是几百年前吐蕃人创作出来的童话故事，那么相应的，你也不会觉得《普贤上师言教》里对地狱的描述是真实的，连带的其他的各种描述你也不会觉得真实。但是由于你习惯于自欺作伪，又置身于特殊环境，身边全都是貌似虔诚的人群，所以你不得不假装自己也相信。但其实你是不信的。这样假装了一段时间之后，你慢慢也就以为自己是真的相信了。但其实你还是不相信，你不相信佛像会说话，不相信铜做的佛像可以走到俗人家去做客，你同样不相信米勒日巴和桑巴当结站在草尖上，不相信证悟空性的人可以在石头上留下脚印。因为你是被西方文化深度捆绑的人。所以虽然修行多年你的底层价值观一直都还是之前的价值观，因为你内心深处认为那是童话故事，所以新的价值观一直无法被建立。这导致你无法生起新的思维模式、新的语言模式以及对事情的反应。因为新的思维模式语言模式以及对事情的反应是要在新的价值观被确立很多年之后才能慢慢生起。这就是为何很多人修行多年却没有形成新的价值观的原因。

改变认知是非常漫长而痛苦的事，改变错误认知所产生的思维模式语言模式行为模式也不遑多让。但是实际操作上我们应该先从行为上改起。如果你犯了错，你应该先从行为上改起，而不是从错误的源头价值观改起。以前我们这里有人犯了错，他们声泪俱下言之凿凿说这次一定改绝对改。我也相信他们确实有改正的心，但是没好几天他们就又故态复萌被习气拉回去了，这令他们无比沮丧。究其原因就是因为他们想要先改变深层价值观再经由价值观的改变而改变行为，但是改变价值观是非常旷日持久的事，最快也要好几年才有成效。如果你希望先改变价值观思维模式，再经由价值观的改变而改变行为，那��就永远改不了了。

即遍是你真正认识到自己错了，也不可能一下子就扭转习惯，因为你之前错误认知养成的习惯还在，而且都还牢牢地控制着你，你做任何事情的时候还是会习惯性的用之前的思路和方式。不是你能认识到错误之前养成的习惯就会自动消失。那是不可能的。所以，假如你希望通过改变错误认知来改变习惯，你就落入了魔王的圈套。深层错误认知（认为人只能活一世，认为万物实存等等）是土壤，而习惯性思维模式行为模式则是土壤上长的草，如果你没把滋生错误习惯的土壤毁掉，即便你的决心很大，草还是会时不时地冒出来，你还是会不断犯错，这种频繁犯错足以毁掉你对自己的信心，让你觉得自己没救了从而产生放弃的心理。所以，正确的做法应该是先去改变行为模式，同时慢慢改变自己的深层价值观。

灵山居士写于2024年9月4日。

[karl-von-moor-official]

Shout out an den “Kressesamen gesäet den 16ten Junius 1796, No. 1, mit einem Topf bedeckt.” Laut Goethe war er “zwar noch ganz frisch, doch zeigte sich an den Wurzeln etwas Schimmel”. So fühle ich mich auch manchmal. 😔✊🌱

[fanpersoningfox]

Life-sign and update on the schoethe:

I have not died but a Paper has come upon me and is leeching all of my brain power so the chapter has to be pushed back. It shall come in late March.

[Insert that post with Cheddar the dog here]

I'm deeply sorry.

I'd also rather be writing or editing schoethe but alas, the law doesn't study itself.

[karl-von-moor-official]

there's a what now???

so, was nobody going to tell me that there's a Goethe musical???

[vyglitchcraft]

TF141 x Indo!Reader

Purely self indulgent and also i want more Indonesian stuff in COD and I wanna meet more fellow Indonesians so yeah! These are just basic HCs, no NSFW just pure shitposting

They struggle to say your name and its HILARIOUS like even the most BASIC ass indonesian name like Putri or Resta or Radit like you know SMAN names? Yeah they BUTCHER it especially your last name. We have like 3-4 names and it gets complicated. Soap in particular like imagine him saying shit like "hey Sargent Soetomo come here!" in the thickest Scottish accent imaginable? Yeahhhh. Price resorts to call you by your rank and Ghost just uses your nickname (or makes his own if its hard to pronounce, or just calls you by your rank, depends), i think Alejandro is the one that gets the closest to the actua correct pronunciation

Saying stuff in Bahasa Indonesia would confuse the everliving FUCK out of them especially if you talk very Medok or you're Javanese and you talk in Bahasa Jowo, if you're Betawi then they'll also get very confused. God help you if you're Papuan because i know yall use the same words to describe a lot of things, the opposite of Javanese because we have like 7 words for falling. Yes 141 would get confused, all of em

"ANJING BEGO GUE HAMPIR KENA YA ELLAHHHH" "ENGLISH Y/N"

"dasar lu, bukan karena gue ya gue kesandung terus ngglundung jadi nyungsep ye" proceeds to mention every animal in existence "Anjing, bebek, babi, etc etc" in the corner Price is rubbing his temples trying to comprehend what you just said. Ghost is just yelling "ENGLISH DAMMIT" at you

Oh don't forget the weird ass humor us Netizen got. We gonna put hard dangdut on the speakers on full volume making everything shake and straight up blowing everyone's ears off. Like seriously, all ages, if you've ever been to an Indonesian party, you know what I'm talking about

Food? You have everything to yourself because nobody else can handle the spice (except Alejandro but he's a respectful mf, he ain't gonna steal any of your food) like you be eating seblak, ayam bakar, bebek goreng, nasi campur or something else and they're just eating their depressing no seasoning fish and chips (or Haggis for Soap ig)

Introduce em to Indonesian food and they would be HOOKED. Ghost is currently eating three packs of Indomie Goreng in the corner, Price is eating nasi lemak while smoking Gudang Garam, Soap is drinking bir Bintang, Gaz is steeping a nice cup of Sariwangi or Tong Tji jasmine tea. You better introduce em to babi guling or soto or something too

Formal wear? Suits are just way too plain, kemeja batik is where its at

You're probably from Kopassus or Densus 88 if you were able to join Task Force 141

Oh and if you're able to marry one of em, they would be shocked but pleasantly surprised. Our weddings or atleast Javanese or Sunda weddings are fucking BIG and a straight up party. Ghost would hate it but I'm sure one of em would like it

If you ever drag one of em to visit, don't let Price on the goddamn road. He is RAGING at everyone. "how the FUCK is this place WORST THEN FUCKING ENGLAND? Wait YOU CAN'T CUT IN FRONT OF ME LIKE THAT! WHAT THE FUCK ARE THESE PEOPLE DOING? Those damn motorcycles too"

Also the visible confusion on their face when you go say shit like "hmm tu kan" when you warned em and they still did it and they ended up getting in trouble. We don't like ribet with those long ass words ok? Ghost might learn some stuff from you too! He's probably gonna say "yaudah lah" all the time now because of you. Also teach Soap some Indonesian insults and swear words too

Comment down more HCs and I'll add em here lmao

[korasonata]

Joe and Cleo model stream quotes Part 9: The Legend of the oWo

Yes, this is the legendary oWo voice stream. I’m not even kidding I have never had such a hard time transcribing something ever, this whole thing was a TRIP. This was a 5 hour stream and they literally do this voice for the entirety of the last 3 hours, and I swear to god that is not even an exaggeration. This was a TIME to transcribe, but I have made a list of highlights (extremely cut because I would honestly just copy paste the whole stream if I could).

Link to the video is here: https://m.twitch.tv/videos/1168998958

Favourite moments of Joe and Cleo crafting streams part 9! Transcriptions below the cut! (Time stamps above each quote)

00:32:32

Cleo (talking about Carol Anne from Poltergeist): She’s the— the name of the little girl that um…that got su— I’m gonna say sucked into the tv? But basically she was sucked into the afterlife.

Joe: No, she was sucked into an afterlife adjacent plane that straddled our reality and the next. They are very clear about this in the film.

Cleo: *flipping Joe off in British* …Oh, sorry. *flipping Joe off in American* Gotta get the right gesture for the right county.

—

01:30:21

Cleo: This has actually, like, turned into one of my most favourite days of the week, because it’s just like I get to talk to Joe for hours. And then I just get to do stupid crafts. So you know.

Joe: *noises of agreement* And I get to talk to Cleo for hours! Making me even more lucky than her! And it’s hard to think of someone more lucky than someone who gets to talk to me for hours. But somehow it’s me.

—

01:52:24

Joe: One of my favourite lines from Rick and Morty is, uh, there’s this alien invasion on Earth and Rick is just like (Rick voice) “Uh, gear up Morty. We gotta go to the Pentagon…no. No, don’t get excited. It’s— it’s— it’s the shitty one on Earth.” *realization*…Oh wait, I can’t swear in these…*trying to pretend he didn’t just swear* It’s like I love the implication that space has a really good Pentagon.

Cleo: You heard it. You all heard it. We all heard it. We’re not gonna say anything, but we all heard it.

Joe: Sorry…

—

The oWo Saga Begins…

—

02:35:10

Joe (reading chat): “I love when JoWo Hills shows up.”

Cleo (speaking oWo): JoWo!

Joe (speaking oWo): JoWo!

Cleo: JoWo! JoWo the Hills!

Joe: Hello CleoWo!

Cleo: Hewo JoWo! How are you?

Joe: I am doing well! Thank you for asking!

Cleo: Are you? I do good! JoWo. I am happy with my buddy.

Joe: I had a delightful muffin!

Cleo: I am happy with my fren JoWo! Wee!

Joe (normal voice): I didn’t actually eat a muffin, but I thought like what would a cute version of me do? And it’s like probably eat a muffin or something adorable.

Cleo (normal voice): You’re already adorable.

Joe: Now I’m regretting not getting a muffin. I’m like, why didn’t I live the life of my cutest self?

Cleo: You be your cutest self, Joe!

Joe: I know!

Cleo (speaking oWo): You be joWo! (Reading chat and laughing) This is terrifying!

Joe (speaking oWo): I need to goWo buy a muffin.

Cleo: *high pitched oWo* Oh no! No JoWo! Don’t go JoWo!

Joe: (laughing) I think this is my least favourite thing we’ve ever done, and I love it.

—

02:36:55

Joe (speaking oWo): My name is JoWo.

Cleo (speaking oWo): I know! I’m CleoWo! Joe is— JoWo is my BEEEEEEEEEEEEEST fren.

Joe: We like to hang out! And bake cakes! And have parties for all our other BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEST frens.

Cleo: And we do— and we do cwafts togevah!

Joe: I hope that we can do crafts with PearlecentMOOwooon!

Cleo: MOOwOooon?! Oh noWooo!! (Dying) I’m sorry, I’ll stop. I’ll stop.

(Foreshadowing: she does in fact not stop)

—

02:46:39

Joe (reading chat): “Joe recently ranted about how he doesn’t make content for children, yet hewe we awe!”

Cleo (mimicking in very high pitched voice): Hewe we awe! Oh noooooooo!! Awwwwwwwe!

Joe: *wheezing*

Cleo: *laughing* It’s just that noise that gets Joe! It’s just like Awwwwwwwee!!

Joe: *through tears of laughter* I just—

Cleo: Oh nOOOoooo!!

Joe: *cry laughing* I makes me so happy!

Cleo: I just so happy by this noise! Oh noooo! *sounds of Joe wheezing* JoWo why are you like this? Oh no JoWo!! *Cleo wheezing*

Joe: I don’t KnoWo…

Cleo: You don’t knoWo? Oh no JoWo….

Joe: And I’m terrified to learn!

—

02:47:52

Joe (reading chat): FloofyCat says “I love this, it’s fine.” But with a name like that, like, I think we found our target audience!

Cleo (speaking oWo): Oh no FloofyCat!! Oh you gonna be owr first freeeeend!

Joe: *whimpering in the background*

Cleo (normal voice): The fact is I can hear Joe having a little mini meltdown as— as I go further on, that makes it worth it.

Joe (rocking back and forth): I’m just gently rocking. I don’t know how much people are looking at the webcam cause it’s very small still but like, I just kinda like— *quietly giggling* self-soothing, it’s like— it’s fine it’s—

Cleo: Awwwwwww! Oh no JoWo! Are you sad JoWo? Cleo make it ALLLLL bedda!!

Joe (through sobs): I’m not used to experiencing strong emotions that aren’t despair, and so my body is just like “Uh, wHAT?!” *sounds of Cleo dying*

—

02:48:40

Cleo (laughing while reading chat): “This is very weird to watch while high on allergy meds” *in a very haunting high pitched voice* Oh nooo! We can help you!

Joe (snickering): But not with your allergies, please seek out professional help from your doctor!

Cleo (creepy little girl voice): Ohhhh, I can help you with your allergies! You won’t like it. But I could help you! *maniacal snickering*

Joe (high pitched voice): That’s like the creepiest thing!

Cleo (laughing): It was supposed to be, Joe!!

Joe: It’s like (creepy little girl voice) You know, sinuses are like tubes, but we can add more entrances! Through your cheeks!

Cleo (creepy little girl voice): We can add more existses tooooooo! It’ll be fIIIIIIIiiiinE! *maniacal snickering*

—

02:50:24

Joe: I feel like I need to, um, I need to like— part of the problem is I keep trying to do the voice while I’m also trying to think of funny things to say. I need to like practice the voice independently. So I can get it.

Cleo (oWo voice): Oh no JoWo….is fiiiiiiiiiiine. You don’ hav to pwactice! You just feew it in your heeeeart, JoWo. *Joe laughing in the background* Eviil!! *maniacal laughing*

*Very loud sounds of Enderman screaming*

Cleo: FU—*loud laughing*

Joe (laughing): I’m just— I’m just imagining clinging to a railing over an abyss and CleoWo is like “so what your feeewings, you know it to be truwoooo!”

Cleo: You know it to be twuuuuue JoWo!! Thank you Phessler for the twwEnty gif subs!! It makes Cleo hAppyyyyy!! Cleo’s going to do the rest of the stream like theees. It’s fiiiiiiiiiiine! Joe is going to do the rest of the stream like—

Joe: *tears literally running down his face* Like I really need to glue stuff, but like my tears are just gonna drip on it—

—

03:26:19

Joe: Ok, so I have to actually get up—

Cleo: You have to go…

Joe: No no no! I was gonna say, I— if I go get more tissues and I have to go, um— the paper— the next page that I need to cut is not within grabbing distance. So, if you actually wanna do this for another half hour, 40 minutes—

Cleo: I can!

Joe: Could you cover for me for like 3 or 4 here?

Cleo: Of course I can! I can always cover for you, Joe.

—

03:34:18

*Joe dying in the background*

Cleo: *laughing* That’s it, he’s off again. It doesn’t take much. No it doesn’t take much. We do it cause we love Joe. That’s why I torture Joe. Because of love.

Joe (finally calm): Thank you CleoWo.

Cleo (oWo voice continues): You vewy wewcome JoWo!

Joe (Beetlejhost voice): I, ah, appreciate all of the love. That ah, you give me. You know, even though ya, you shoWo it in your oWon way—

Cleo (singing oWo): In my own waaaay!

Joe (Beetlejhost voice): You know it’s— it’s really, ah, meaningful.

Cleo: Is trAUMAAAAA based wuv!!

—

03:40:28

Joe (oWo voice): I forgive yoWooo.

Cleo: Thank you JoWo! I do appreciate it! I appreciate your sympathy!

Joe: I appreciate yoWoo. You awe good frend

Cleo: You are a vewy good frend to Cweo! ZombieCweo likes JoWo!

Joe: Yay!

Cleo: Vewy fwendly!

Joe: It the highwight of my dayway!

—

03:47:27

Joe: I can’t let ZombieCleoWo dowoWn. That would give her a froWown.

Cleo: BeetleJhoWost needs to know that Cleo is— is just— ha— (cut off)

Joe: …is just what?

Cleo: Is just happy. When you suffer.

Joe: Yay!

Cleo: Yaaaaaaay! It’s not just you, though, it’s everybody. It’s fiiiiiine! It’s fiiine.

Joe: *laughing* CleoWo is taking the “sad” out of “sadist”

Cleo: *cackling*

—

03:48:38

Joe (Beetlejhost voice): Hey, ah, there Cleo. It sounds like you kinda reached inside yourself and found, ah, a certain truuuWuth that you, ah, hadn’t confronted before.

Cleo (oWo voice): I am just— I am just the cuUUTest widdle murdewer there EEever was! Ever ever!

[mediioxumate]

JOWO!!!! I lov you and I lov everything we've thrown back and forth between the two of us. We can always mix and match our muses so well and it's always a pleasure to discuss things!! I think you're a lovely and awesome person who's easy to talk w/ no matter what the subject may be. You're chill and funny and aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. I'm glad that we met and started talking and writing together!!!!

ANONYMOUSLY TELL ME YOUR HONEST OPINION ABOUT ME. I CAN’T REPLY/COMMENT, JUST PUBLISH.

[leftiswherethedoorisright]

Reflecting on poor financial choices

The two of you who follow me... Thanks, one of you seems to be as annoyed by Derek Landys choices for the SP series as I am and the other shares some of my aesthetic preferences. Neither of you probably care about long rambly posts about fountain pens tho, which this post most definitively will become.

I bought some pens since my fabulous dialog 3, which still is used regularly. I bought an Otto Hutt Design 07, an Omas Paragon and spent time with my uncles Meisterstück 149. Right out of the gate: The 07 is the prettiest, the 149 the most imposing and the Paragon manages to hold the title of unreliable bitch.

Let’s go about in the order I recieved these pens.

First, I bought the Design 07 in the brass finish with transluscent black paint. It looks sleek, modern and sinister. It’s glorious and I would take it over the Silver finish everyday. The pen has a distinct German feel to it. The cap threads feel better and smoother than some bearings, it takes barely two thirds of a turn to cap and uncap and they are triple starts. With a hefty capped weight of 63g and 39 uncapped this pen doesn’t feel like the work of modern art it very much is but more like it was designed to be a melee weapon for the nuclear apocalypse. The packaging, made completely in Germany, is very impressive, too, but honestly, I can’t be bothered by it. You get a pen pouch from leatherette, a polishing cloth which you will need, a branded converter and a total of 6 ink cartridges, which I haven’t tried because the only royal blue I like is Montblancs with it’s reddish sheen and proper deep blue. The Design 07 appears to come with a number 8 JoWo 18K nib with special stamping and pretty damn perfect stamping and decoration work. I luckily have one of the older models with the companys initials instead of the logo, it just seems more fitting for this pen. The hinged clip is plenty strong enough for the pens weight, even upside down clipped to a t-shirt, no complaints. The best thing tho is the way it writes. A hint of feedback, consistent ink flow with a medium wet approach, giving you a good balance between “Fuck your ink jet paper” and “Damn this ink looks good”. I really, really like it and think it can hold its own against something like a Montblanc Meisterstück 149.

Next I bought the Omas Paragon, mainly for the glorious art deco styling. If any of my pens looks as good as my crush, this one is probably the closest. Elegant, timeless styling with near perfect scrollwork. The looks are nearly as sexy, the personality wasn’t from the get go. You see, the previous owner really didn’t clean the pen and it took me the better part of five hours just to fucking clean the feed, piston and inside and a couple days later, while loaded with Pelikan Star Ruby, the ink didn’t flow as wet anymore, so I took it apart, found a beautifully bordeaux coloured glob in the one massive ink channel in the feed (unlike most fountain pens, this pen just has one truly massive channel instead of the usual two to three smaller channels)... So I loaded it up with Graf von Faber-Castell Carbon Black and now, if I ever join a mafia, I have the perfect pen ink combination for it. The black pen with its silver accents already looks like something from a villain of the early twentieth century and with an ink as black as Carbon Black (it really is light swallowing and barely shades as it is a proper black and not a dark grey)... Damn. Got more reliable to.

Now, for my uncles Meisterstück 149. He wanted to buy me my own Meisterstück 149 for my Abitur (German A-Levels) and 18th birthday (he really is far too generous but once he puts his mind to something it is next to impossible to stop him) but since my birthday now was over a month ago and we only today are getting around to making that a reality I got to spend some time with his 149 and damn... It’s 14K M nib really has slightly to slim of a line for a pen of this immense size, but it writes like a dream. It even looks better than the modern Montblanc nibs with only the outside gold and the rest plated in either rhodium or platinum. Maybe I’ll post pictures of it later comparing it to a modern 149 nib.

He also said he had Montblanc Royal Blue in it and I was like “Are you serious? Royal blue is a crime against humanity with its meager saturation” but not Montblancs. It is every bit as deep as I could have whished, really a rather nicely saturated blue with a spectacular hue and nice red sheen when applied wet enough. It and iroshizuku ajisai are my favourite blues. Both are undoubtebly blue but while ajisai seems a bit like ice, Montblancs approach appears to be a more of a welcoming blue with a warmer feel. My next love letter just has to be written in Montblanc Royal Blue and I will buy my own bottle of it, though I am not sure which Royal Blue it is. The packaging looks more like the one of my Irish Green bottle (a gorgeous green, really reminding me of my Ireland vacation and the green grasslands, woods and everything there) but its Ident- Nr is 105192. I can highly recommend it. If every royal blue was this good, I’d never have branched out my ink collection. Would have saved me around 300€.

Edit: Apparantly Montblanc just changed their ink flask packaging in the quite distant past and I recieved a bottle with older packaging. Still very sexy Irish green and Royal Blue

And lastly, my adventure with Graf von Faber-Castell Carbon Black and Cobalt Blue. I recently ordered some Carbon Black of penoblo.de, a small German online specialty retailer, which in no way shape or form know of this post and hopefully never will. I recieved a bottle of what I thought was Cobalt Blue since both packaging and bottle stated so. I called them up, was greeted very kindly and promised a replacement, then chatted for a couple minutes about fountain pens. It is so nice to speak to someone even more passionate than I am about this hobby... The replacement arrived the next day and I didn’t recieve a retourn label, so I was like “I am going to try Cobalt Blue” and was greeted by a pit of a black which would make Lord Viles amour seem gray. So, naturally, I ordered a bottle of Cobalt Blue and recieved another bottle of Carbon Black dressed as Cobalt Blue, called them again, spoke to Mr. Butul again and yeah, it seems that Graf made a mistake with labelling sometime ago and not every faulty bottle was properly sent back to Nürnberg. Really, this is the kind of transparency I want to see and this experience just proves Anthonys of ukfountainpens statement: “Customers (generally) accept that mistakes happen; if you step up and solve the problem, they can actually be happier with their overall experience than if no problem had happened in the first place.“ I am frankly flattered by the amount of service and to every German reading this I can wholeheartedly recommend penoblo. I look forward to recieving my correct Cobalt Blue now more than ever and I will be happy to send the incorrectly labelled ones back. If I don’t have to send them , I will be sure to find myself a local addict for them because I will not need 225ml of black ink in the next few years. I can highly recommend it for more sensitive fountain pens and lovers of deep and dark secrets.

If anyone got through this whole post: I hope you are blessed with the same stamina in the bedroom, while running up stairs and listening to problems of your loved ones.

[korecrimson]

I really hate that thing men do where they give you super condescending (unsolicited) advice, and then act like you're being a bitch when you point out that it's condescending and don't fall all over yourself in gratitude. Because they were "just trying to be helpful!"

No, dickhead, you were being patronizing, assuming that I don't know anything about the subject and dispensing very basic information like it's some kind of divine revelation.

I had a problem with a fountain pen (that, turns out, had a part with a manufacturing defect when it was shipped to me). I posted about it on Instagram because I was frustrated that the very expensive toy I bought myself for my birthday was being troublesome. And several people, including the pen maker, have commented with various gems such as "oh, eyedropper pens work differently than cartridge-converters, you just have to let it sit for a few minutes!" (I have six pens eyedroppered currently, and that's just the ones that are inked; I know how they work) and "that's a #6 Jowo nib, you need to be careful when you put it back in that you get it aligned properly, I see this problem all the time!" (I know what kind of nib it is, having done a fair amount of research before I dropped $150 on it, I clean my pens pretty regularly and know how to reassemble them properly, and oh yeah, this was a problem it was having out of the box, so unless the manufacturer didn't align it properly, no it's not a "fairly simple problem that just needs a minor adjustment.")

I know sometimes in customer service you have to start with the obvious stuff and work from there, but I wasn't talking to customer service, I was expressing irritation on my own private account, which is specifically dedicated to fountain pens, so if you took thirty seconds to think before you start typing, you might be able to infer that I'm not someone who's never touched one before.

[trashpandacraft]

i'm thrilled to inform you that while this type of esterbrook isn't being made, it's incredibly easy to buy one if you're interested! i have several in various states of repair. this is my favourite:

esterbrooks were very common and very popular pens—the company was started in the mid-1800s, but they became known for their dollar pens, which were released in the early 1930s and cost (shocker) a dollar.

the pen above is one of their j-model pens—specifically the sj, which is the smallest of the three sizes that they made. the j series was introduced in the mid-40s.

one of the cool things about esterbrooks is that they used the renew-point system shown in the ad above. the nibs are a complete unit, and just screw in and out of the pen. the incomparable resource richard's pens has a full list of the nib units they offered, and it's fucking wild. (he also has a great overview of the j line.) generally speaking, esterbrook nibs and pens are mix and match—most of the pens they made will take any of those nibs happily.

so like i said earlier, these pens aren't being made anymore, but they're still easy to get a hold of—there are tons for sale on ebay, and almost as many nibs. at a glance, it looks like you can pick up refurbished pens with common nibs (or in one very 👀 auction, less common nibs) for as little as about thirty bucks usd. if you're desperate for a flex or stub nib, finding and buying the nib will be harder and more expensive than finding and buying the pen itself. while you can pick up the more common nibs for (sometimes) as little as about ten bucks (us), the less common styles are forty-plus, in my experience.

it's a pretty cool experience. they're lever-filled pens, so they work very differently to modern pens. they have a little latex sac inside of them:

on the outside of the pen, there's a little lever:

lifting up the lever presses a little bar, called a j-bar, inside the pen, which forces air out of the latex sac. when you let go of the lever, the bar lifts off of the sac, and the sac fills with ink.

if you have any interest in getting into vintage pens or pen restoration, i can't say enough good things about picking up a few inexpensive esterbrooks and playing around with them. i've only restored a couple pens, but this green one was one of them, and it was really satisfying. when i bought it, the nib was so crusty that i couldn't tell what kind of nib it was, the lever was stuck, and the latex sac was so old that it was partially adhered to the inner wall of the pen, and had hardened so much that it came out in gross hard flakes. all of this is common in older pens, though, and it was pretty easy to fix, and now i have this cool pen!

as a heads up, the original esterbrook went out of business in the early 70s. the name was bought by another company in the 2010s, though, and they've since released a couple lines of pens, including the esterbrook jr. these are not vintage pens, and they have a standard, modern jowo nib—they won't take the cool vintage nib units, and they're probably not what you want. old ones will usually have words like 'vintage' (or less commonly 'vtg'), 'refurbished', or 'nos' (short for new old stock) in the listing title—none of the more modern ones are old enough to need refurbishment.

They are always sold out of #1313 Illegible Gibberish so I have to make do with I can find.

The Saturday Evening Post - December 7th 1946